You are heading the thermal business for General Electric (GE) in South Asia. Can you throw some light on the business and the prospects in India?
I have been working with GE Power in Zurich, Switzerland for the last 12 years. Around two years ago, GE acquired the thermal power business of Alstom and I had the opportunity to head the South Asian division of this business in India.

India has celebrated its moment under the sun when a few months back the then power minister announced that it has turned surplus in power supply. Though the statement has its share of ifs and buts, significant improvement in coal production was the reason for this.

mjunction services limited, a joint venture between Tata steel and SAIL, is hosting the 11th International Coal Markets Conference. The conference seeks to highlight the challenges plaguing the cmjunction services limited,oal industry this year and bring about a resolution for the same.

A new report released by the Energy Finance Studies Australasia at Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) details how NTPC is poised to facilitate India’s drive toward ambitious national renewable energy targets and is leading the global energy transition.

GoI has decided to put aside the grandiose project Utkarsh — a roadmap for achieving 1 BT production by CIL by 2020 at an investment of over Rs 1 lakh crore — in the light of rapidly changing socio-economic dynamics in which the country needs less coal.

In order to meet the coal demand in next five years, Coal India Ltd, the main coal producer, has an ambitious plan of increasing its production to one billon tonnes by FY2019-20. CIL's production is showing an increasing trend, having gone up from 494 Mt in FY15 to 554 Mt in FY17.

In the past five years, coal power made up over two-thirds of capacity additions in India's generation, and currently accounts for more than 60 per cent of India's power capacity. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), India's coal demand will see the biggest growth over the next five years, despite a global slowdown.